Word: tiers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...progress on the Phelps Memorial gateway has been rapid in the last two weeks. The work of putting up the seventh tier of iron work is being rapidly pushed and when this is finished only one tier will remain to be added. About twenty-five feet is yet to be built and when complete the building is to have six stories and a loft. The gateway will take a long step toward the complete enclosing of the campus, which is now practically accomplished from Dufie to the Art School, about half the entire distance...
Owing to the presence of the inclined ladders which have recently been introduced into the gymnasium there will be no raised seats along the sides of the hall tomorrow. At the southern end there will be the usual tier of reserved seats. There will probably also be three rows of chairs along the sides. The seats in the gallery on the side opposite the door are also reserved; the rest of the seats in the gallery are free. The prices for reserved seats are: for those on the floor, $1.00; and for those in the gallery, 75 cents. Tickets...
...Roman theatre, too, the seats for the audience are benches, not chairs, and slope up from around the orchestra in wedges with the stairs between. Unfortunately for the present purpose, these benches do not run to the top of the theatre in one tier. The other important difference from the ancient theatre is the permanent roof; but even with these two disadvantage, there are few modern theatres which would be so well suited to the wants of the Classical department as Sanders...
...final football match between Yale and Princeton at Eastern Park. Orders for seats have been received from students and graduates from Dartmouth, Williams, Wesleyan, Cornell, Rutgers, University of Pennsylvania, Hobart, Amherst, Bowdoin, and many others. A party of Cambridge and Oxford boys will occupy one of the lower tier boxes. Harvard and Columbia will, of course, be out in full force...